Wm. Theodore de Bary papers, 1934-2017, bulk 1960-2005

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Series II: Career Files, 1948-2017

Series II contains the spectrum of materials related to de Bary's decades-long career, primarily at Columbia University. Organized alphabetically, Sub-Series II.1 includes all general files, notably those related to the establishment of the Committee on Oriental Studies, departmental affairs within, first, the Department of Chinese and Japanese and later, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALAC). Additional files shed light on de Bary's roles in various university committees and project groups. Sub-Series II.2 includes administrative files related to the Core Commission and the Core Curriculum. Note that the actual teaching contents of the Core Curriculum are gathered under Series VI: Teaching/Course Materials. Sub-Series II.3 includes general materials on the Heyman Center for the Humanities, which was established during de Bary's term as the Provost. Additional Heyman files may be have been interspersed in the neighboring Sub-Series.


Sub-Series II.1: Columbia University, General

Arranged alphabetically.



Box 9 Folder 6 Appointments and Cirriculum Vitae, 1977-2009

letters from the Trustees of the University


Box 9 Folder 7 Cirriculum Vitae, 1988, 1999



Box 10 Folder 2 Cirriculum Vitae, Tribute Speeches, 2011-2012



Box 9 Folder 8 Campus History & Tour, 1992-2002



Box 10 Folder 3-5 Center for Religion and Life, 1968-1971

Committee on Religious Life


Box 10 Folder 6-7 Center for the Study of Human Rights, 1981-1990


Class of 1941, Columbia College



Box 9 Folder 9-10 1987-2002

Includes photographs of celebration


Box 9 Folder 11 1996


Box 9 Folder 12 Reunion, 1961


Box 9 Folder 13 Nominating Committee, 1990-2002


Columbia Alumni Association

Tokyo, Taiwan



Box 10 Folder 8 1989-1992


Box 10 Folder 9 2010


Columbia College


Box 10 Folder 10 Instruction/Instructional Staff, 1954-1961

Includes De Bary's CVs



Box 11 Folder 1-2 Humanities Committee, 1961-1963


Box 11 Folder 3 Columbia College Today, Spring 1962, 1962


Box 11 Folder 4 Ad Hoc Committee on Science in a Liberal Curriculum, 1983



Box 9 Folder 14 1986-1990


Box 9 Folder 15 1987-2006



Box 12 Folder 1-2 1988-2000


Box 12 Folder 3-6 Class of 1941 Collegiate Chair of Asian Humanities, 1989-2002



Box 11 Folder 5 1991-1993



Box 12 Folder 7 1992-1995



Box 11 Folder 6 Graduates List, 1998-1999


Box 11 Folder 7 College of Arts and Sciences, 2010


Box 11 Folder 8 Columbia College Today, 1990-1995


Box 11 Folder 9 Columbia Magazine/Columbia Record, 1981-1998



Box 12 Folder 8 Columbia Revolt '68, University political reorganization, 1968-1970



Box 11 Folder 10 Committee on the Establishment of a Columbia Humanities Center, Report, 2003



Box 13 Folder 1-6 Commencement Programs, 1948-2008


Contemporary Civilizations



Box 11 Folder 11 1995



Box 13 Folder 7 1997


Box 13 Folder 8 Correspondence, 1981-1989


Box 13 Folder 9-10 Oriental Civilization Courses, 1979-1989


Committee on Oriental Studies

later became UCAME (University Committee on Asia and the Middle East



Box 14 Folder 1 Oriental Humanities Translation Project, 1959-1966


Box 14 Folder 2 Annual Reports, 1961-1968


Box 14 Folder 3 Annual Reports, 1962-1965



Box 15 Folder 1-2 Correspondence, 1963-1980



Box 14 Folder 4 Correspondence, 1968-1991



Box 15 Folder 3 Correspondence, 1969-1973


Box 15 Folder 4 Translations, Agreements, 1971-1978


Box 15 Folder 5 Royalty Fund, 1972-1978


Box 15 Folder 6 Self and Society in Ming Thought, 1972-1973


Box 15 Folder 7 Translations, 1973-1974


Box 15 Folder 8 Varley, Paul, 1973, 1978


Box 15 Folder 9 Expenses, 1980-1987


Box 15 Folder 10-11 Correspondence, 1981-1984



Box 14 Folder 5 Publications Committee, 1982-1987



Box 16 Folder 1 Royalties, 1980-2003



Box 17 Folder 1 Correspondence, scholarly, 1985-1988


Box 17 Folder 2 1988-1989


Box 17 Folder 3 Budget, 1988-1989


Box 17 Folder 4 1989-1990


Box 17 Folder 5 Budget, 1990-1991


Box 17 Folder 6 Budget, 1991-1992



Box 14 Folder 6 Committee on Ethnic Studies, 1996



Box 16 Folder 2 Committee on Student Organizations, 1963-1966



Box 14 Folder 7 Council for Research in the Humanities, 1984


Box 14 Folder 8-9 Expenses, supplies, miscellaneous, 1983-1989



Box 16 Folder 3 Correspondence, miscellaneous, 1968-1971


Box 16 Folder 4 Correspondence, Budget and supplies orders, 1988-2004



Box 17 Folder 7 De Bary Fund for Scholarship Exchange with Japan in the Humanities, 1983-1985


Department of Chinese and Japanese



Box 16 Folder 5 1951



Box 17 Folder 8 Kojiro Yoshikawa, 1962-1963


Box 17 Folder 9 Departmental Bulletin, PhD Programs, undated



Box 16 Folder 6 Department of Chinese and Japanese, East Asian Language and Area Center, 1965


Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALAC)


Box 16 Folder 7 1960-1978

Includes correspondence on De Bary to chair the department



Box 17 Folder 10 Chinese Thought M.A & PhD Exams, 1962-1988



Box 18 Folder 1 Japanese Thought M.A & PhD Exams, 1963-1988


Box 18 Folder 2 Advisees, 1966-1968



Box 16 Folder 8 1971-1976



Box 18 Folder 3 Chairman's Report, 1972


Box 18 Folder 4 Advisees, 1979-1992



Box 16 Folder 9-10 1980-1990



Box 19 Folder 1 1980-1996

Appointment of the De Bary Chair



Box 18 Folder 5 Candidates and PhD Regulations, 1982-1984


Box 18 Folder 6 Student List, 1988-1990



Box 19 Folder 2 Courses, Guide for Perceptors, 1993-2005



Box 18 Folder 7 1997-2000



Box 19 Folder 3 Spring 2007 Courses


Department of Religion


Box 19 Folder 4 1977



Box 18 Folder 8 1981, 1984


Box 18 Folder 9 1982, 1987



Box 19 Folder 5 Donald Keene Center, 1986-1990



Box 18 Folder 10 Earl Hall Center, 1979


East Asian Institute



Box 19 Folder 6 Reports, 1954-1959


Box 19 Folder 7-10 1961-1964



Box 18 Folder 11 1974-1990


Box 18 Folder 12 East Asian Institute, East Asian Languages, Department of Middle East, Reform Proposals, 1968


East Asian Library



Box 21 Folder 1-2 1960-1969

On the establishment/relocation of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library in Kent Hall



Box 20 Folder 1-2 1977-1990


East Asian Language and Area Center (NDEA)


Box 20 Folder 3 Technical and Financial Report, 1962-1963



Box 21 Folder 3 Annual Report, 1965



Box 18 Folder 13 Plans of Operations, Reports, 1968-1970


East Asian Studies Program



Box 20 Folder 4 1964



Box 21 Folder 4 1976-1979


Box 21 Folder 5 East-West Group, 1961


East-West Center


Box 21 Folder 6 1991-2000


Box 21 Folder 7 Pam Stiles, 1993-1994


Box 21 Folder 8 1994-1995



Box 20 Folder 5 Workshop, 1995


Box 20 Folder 6 1995-1999



Box 21 Folder 9 Emeritus Professors in Columbia (EPIC Group), 1996-2000


Endowment Funds


Box 21 Folder 10 1988-2011



Box 20 Folder 7 2013-2015



Box 22 Folder 1-3 European-American Cooperation Steering Committee, 1984-2001



Box 21 Folder 11 European and North American Exchanges, 2000-2001


Executive Committee of the Faculty



Box 22 Folder 4 1967-1968


Box 22 Folder 5-6 1967-1971



Box 20 Folder 8 Faculty House, Expenses/Invoices, 1983-1989


Faculty of Arts and Sciences


Box 20 Folder 9 1990-1991



Box 22 Folder 7-8 1992-2002



Box 23 Folder 1 Federal Work-Study Forms/Brochure, 2003



Box 24 Folder 1-2 Financial Training Info



Box 23 Folder 2 Finance: Subcode List, 2006


Box 23 Folder 3 Fundraising for the Humanities Center, 1978-1979


Box 23 Folder 4 General Honors Exam, 1987



Box 24 Folder 3-4 George Nakashima Altar, St. Paul's Chapel, 1995-2002


Box 24 Folder 5 George Nakashima Furniture, 2006-2007


Box 24 Folder 6 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1980-1990



Box 23 Folder 5 Gymnasium Building Fund, 1966-1970


Invitations, Programs, Brochures


Box 23 Folder 6 1976-1999


Box 23 Folder 7 Invoices, 1991-1997



Box 24 Folder 7 Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, 1991


Box 24 Folder 8 Luce Scholars, 1980-1988



Box 23 Folder 8 Luncheon, 1976



Box 25 Folder 3 Major Cultures, 1994-1996

UCAME, Core



Box 23 Folder 9-10 Maps and Directions



Box 25 Folder 4 Mellon Grant, 1975-1979



Box 23 Folder 11 Ming Biographical History Project, 1971-1976


National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)



Box 25 Folder 5 Asia in the Undergraduate Core Curriculum, Interim & final reports, 1986-1988

EH-20543-85


Box 25 Folder 6 Sources of Neo-Confucianism, Correspondence & report, 1980-1987

KL-28309-77-1186


Box 25 Folder 7 Summer Institute on Great Books of the Major Asian Traditions, 1986

June 2-July 11, 1986



Box 27 Folder 1-6 Grants, NEH, 1977-1988

Correspondence and reports related to the above three grants



Box 26 Folder 1 Office of Public Information, 1978

Inquiry on Dean Lung, Horace Walpole Carpentier



Box 25 Folder 8 Office of University Development & Alumni Relations, 1990



Box 26 Folder 2-3 Oriental Humanities 40th Anniversary, 1987-1988


Oriental Studies Program



Box 28 Folder 1-2 1952-1959


Box 28 Folder 3-4 Articles and Publicity, 1955-1960


Box 28 Folder 5-6 1958-1959



Box 27 Folder 7 1980-1989



Box 26 Folder 4 Finance, 1980-1993



Box 27 Folder 8 General Education Program in Oriental Studies, undated



Box 26 Folder 5 Pam Stiles Memorial Fund, 2005-2007


Box 26 Folder 6 Parking, 2001



Box 28 Folder 7 Presidential Commission on the Future of the University, 1987



Box 26 Folder 7 Presidential Investiture Programs, 1980-1993


Reid Hall, The Sterling Currier Fund



Box 29 Folder 1 1981-1984


Box 29 Folder 2-3 1984-1986


Box 29 Folder 4-6 1987-1988



Box 30 Folder 1-3 1988-1991



Box 26 Folder 8-9 1998-2002


Sabbatical Leave


Box 26 Folder 10 1966-1967



Box 31 Folder 1 1988-1989



Box 28 Folder 8 Sawyer Seminar, Mellon Foundation, 2000



Box 30 Folder 4 School of General Studies, 1979-1989


Box 30 Folder 5 School of International Affairs, 1980-1988



Box 28 Folder 9 Seminar on Traditional China, 1989



Box 31 Folder 2 Senior Society of Nacoms, Dinner, 1973


Society of Fellows



Box 30 Folder 6 1988-1989


Box 30 Folder 7-8 1986-1990



Box 32 Folder 1 1982-1985


Box 32 Folder 2 1977-1981


Box 32 Folder 3 Annual reports & Membership, 1976-1987



Box 31 Folder 3 1995-2008



Box 32 Folder 4 Society of Columbia Graduates, 2011


Lionel Trilling Seminar



Box 31 Folder 4-5 1979-1994



Box 32 Folder 5 1988



Box 31 Folder 6-7 1992-2001


Box 31 Folder 8 Society of Older Graduates at Columbia, 1972



Box 32 Folder 6 Special Service Professor Appointment, 2004



Box 31 Folder 9 Lionel Trilling Award, 1982


Box 31 Folder 10 Taraknath Das Prize for Excellence in South Asian Studies, 2004


University Advisory Committee on Athletics



Box 32 Folder 7 1979-1990


Box 32 Folder 8 1982-1983


Box 32 Folder 9 University Committee on General Education, 1979-1984


University Reform


Box 32 Folder 10 1968


Box 32 Folder 11 1969


University Senate



Box 33 Folder 1 Proposal, 1969


Box 33 Folder 2 By-Laws, Statutes, and Rules, 1969


Box 33 Folder 3 Bulletins, Reports, 1969-1970


Box 33 Folder 4 Meetings, 1969-1971


Box 33 Folder 5 Forum, 1971


Box 33 Folder 6 Meetings, 1971



Box 31 Folder 11 Varsity-Related, 1998-1999



Box 33 Folder 7 Vice Presidency & College Deanship, 1971-1977


Box 33 Folder 8 Vehicle Parking, 2003


Box 33 Folder 9 War Dead Memorial, 1996



Box 31 Folder 12 Work-Study: forms and correspondence, 1994-2001



Box 33 Folder 10 Kojiro Yoshikawa Memorial Service, 1980-1981



Box 31 Folder 13 240th Commencement, 1994-1995



Box 34 Folder 1-2 Miscellaneous Event Brochures, 1993-2003

Commencement, Convocation, Memorial, etc.



Box 45 Folder 10 Barnard College, Fanny Brett de Bary Fund for Asian Studies, 1993-1997


Sub-Series II.2: Core Curriculum



Box 51 Folder 5 1988



Box 49 Folder 5 Core Curriculum, 1988


Core Commission



Box 51 Folder 6 Correspondence, 1988


Box 51 Folder 7 Minutes, 1988


Box 51 Folder 8 Members/Label Lists, Miscellaneous, 1988


Box 51 Folder 9 Science Ad Hoc Committee, 1989


Standing Committee



Box 52 Folder 1 1988-1991


Box 52 Folder 2 1991


Box 52 Folder 3 1991


Box 52 Folder 4 References, 1980s


Extended Core


Box 52 Folder 5 1988


Box 52 Folder 6-7 1989-1991


Box 52 Folder 8 1991



Box 53 Folder 1 Articles, 1982-2000


Box 53 Folder 2 Core Awards, Proceedings, 1997-2003


Box 53 Folder 3 Report of the Commission on the Core Curriculum, 1998


Box 53 Folder 4 Clippings, 1991-1995



Box 49 Folder 6 Core Awards, 2001, 2008



Box 183 Folder 8 Prospectus for a Multicultural Sequence in the Core Curriculum, 2001-2002



Box 53 Folder 5 2011-2012



Box 49 Folder 7 2012-2014


Sub-Series II.3: Heyman Center, 1981-2004

Arranged alphabetically.



Box 34 Folder 3-4 1978-2003


Box 34 Folder 5 Academic Quality Fund, 2002


Administrative Committee



Box 35 Folder 1-2 1988-1992



Box 34 Folder 6 1990-1998


Box 34 Folder 7 1993-1995



Box 35 Folder 3 Alumni College: Applications, 1987 Fall


Box 35 Folder 4 Alumni College: Applications, 1988 Fall


Box 35 Folder 5 Alumni College: Colloquia, 1988 Fall


Alumni Colloquium



Box 34 Folder 8 1986-2001


Box 34 Folder 9-10 1989-1998



Box 36 Folder 1 1990-2000


Box 36 Folder 2 1999-2005


Box 36 Folder 3 2003-2007


Box 36 Folder 4 2006


Box 36 Folder 5 Budgets, Endowments, 1993-2002



Box 35 Folder 6 CAME Expenses, 2005-2006



Box 36 Folder 6-7 Core Curriculum Award, 1993-2002


Center Reports


Box 36 Folder 8 1988-1990


Box 36 Folder 9 1989



Box 35 Folder 7 2002



Box 36 Folder 10 Center for Comparative Literature and Society, 1998-2000

Includes newsletter Volume 1, Issue 1-2 & Volume 2, Issue 1, 1999-2000



Box 35 Folder 8 Classics Workshop, 2010


Correspondence



Box 37 Folder 1 1977-1979



Box 38 Folder 1-2 1982-1983


Box 38 Folder 3 1984


Box 38 Folder 4-5 1985-1986


Box 38 Folder 6 1987



Box 35 Folder 9 1988-1990



Box 39 Folder 1 1990-1992



Box 37 Folder 2-3 1981-2001


Box 37 Folder 4 1995-2004


Box 37 Folder 5 1999-2003



Box 39 Folder 2 2004-2006


Box 39 Folder 3 Committee on the Global Core: Correspondence, 2006, 2011


Box 39 Folder 4 Directions to Heyman Center, undated


Box 39 Folder 5-6 Director Convocation, 22nd Anniversary, 2004


Box 39 Folder 7 Expenses, miscellaneous, 1984-1985


Box 39 Folder 8 Expenses, office supplies, 1983-1988


Box 39 Folder 9 Expenses, proceedings & dedications, 1981-1984


Box 39 Folder 10 Exxon Education Foundation, 1986-1987


Friends of the Heyman Center



Box 40 Folder 1-2 1987-2002


Box 40 Folder 3 1995-2002


Box 40 Folder 4 2003-2007


Box 40 Folder 5 Finances, 1979-2006


Box 40 Folder 6 Founding, 1977, 2003


Box 40 Folder 7 Carl Hovde room endowment, 1998, 2001


Humanities Lecture/Seminar Series


Box 40 Folder 8 1987-1988



Box 41 Folder 1-2 50th Anniversary of the Humanities as a Course, 1987-1988


Box 41 Folder 3-4 Invitation Lists, 1983-1989



Box 40 Folder 9 Invitation to Conferences, 1987-1990


Box 40 Folder 10 Liszt Centennary, 1985-1987


Box 40 Folder 11 Mark Rollins, Projects, 1988, 1990



Box 39 Folder 11 Maxwell Project, 1987

Kenneth Maxwell



Box 42 Folder 1-2 Mellon Funds Match, 1993-1998



Box 39 Folder 12 Oriental Humanities Colloquia, 1988 Spring


Box 39 Folder 13 Report, 88/89, 1989-04-01T00:00:00+00:00



Box 40 Folder 12 The Role of the Humanities in the Core, discussion, 1996



Box 39 Folder 14 Retirement Proceedings, De Bary, 2004


Society of Senior Scholars



Box 41 Folder 5 Members, Program introduction, 1989-1990


Box 41 Folder 6 Correspondence: A-L, 1988-1990


Box 41 Folder 7-8 Correspondence: M-Z, 1987-1990



Box 42 Folder 3 Correspondence, 2005-2006



Box 43 Folder 1 Correspondence, 2008-2011



Box 41 Folder 9 Press Release, Clippings, 1988



Box 42 Folder 4 1987-1992


Box 42 Folder 5 1988-2008


Box 42 Folder 6 Society of Fellows in the Humanities, 1989-2002



Box 44 Folder 1 Society of Fellows in the Humanities, 1990-2000


Box 44 Folder 2-3 Funding, 1992-2002


Box 44 Folder 4 Funding crunch, 1994-1999



Box 45 Folder 1-3 People/Membership, 1994-2003



Box 44 Folder 5 2000-2001



Box 43 Folder 2 2014


Teaching Fellowship

East Asian Civilizations


Box 43 Folder 3 Confucianism, 2000-2004



Box 44 Folder 6 De Bary, 1998-2005


Box 44 Folder 7 Fang Tu, 1976-2004


Box 44 Folder 8 1996-2004


Box 44 Folder 9 2001-2005



Box 43 Folder 4 Tribute speeches, 1980-1981


Box 43 Folder 5 Ukranians visit, 1991-1992


Box 43 Folder 6-7 Visions of the Modern City: Correspondence, 1984-1990


Box 43 Folder 8 Visions of the Modern City: Expenses, 1983-1988


Sub-Series II.4: University Seminars



Box 46 Folder 4-6 Oriental Thought and Religion, 1962-1968



Box 48 Folder 7 Oriental Thought and Religion, 1965-1972


Modern East Asia: China



Box 46 Folder 7 Meeting Minutes, The Rise of Individualism in the Ming Dynasty, 1964



Box 49 Folder 1-2 Humanism and Individualism in the Ming Thought, 1967-1968



Box 46 Folder 8 The Tensions of Ming Thought/China's Modern Crisis in the Ming, circa 1968



Box 50 Folder 1-4 Regional Seminar in Neo-Confucian Studies, 1973-1976



Box 46 Folder 9 General Education Seminar, 1979-1983


Neo-Confucian Seminar



Box 51 Folder 1-2 1979-1990



Box 46 Folder 10 1980


Box 46 Folder 11 circa 1985



Box 50 Folder 5 Minutes, 1993


Box 50 Folder 6 Modern China Seminar, 1980-1981


Box 50 Folder 7 Traditional China Seminar, 1982-1988



Box 49 Folder 3 University Seminar 50th Anniversary & Neo-Confucian Seminar, 1993-2001


Box 49 Folder 4 Reference: University Seminar History and Movement, 2001


Seminar Reports



Box 51 Folder 3 1973-1974


Box 51 Folder 4 Vol.2, No.1-8, 1974-1975


Sub-Series II.5: UCAME (University Committee on Asia & the Middle East)



Box 49 Folder 8 Funding History, 1977, 1997, 2013-2014



Box 53 Folder 6 Petty Cash, 1994-2004



Box 49 Folder 9 Publications of the Committee on Asia & the Middle East/Selected Asian Classics, 1995-1998


Box 49 Folder 10 Enrollment Statistics, circa 1997


Box 49 Folder 11 Wing-tsit Chan Lectureship, 1994-2000



Box 54 Folder 1 Guide for Teachers, 1997-2001



Box 53 Folder 7 East Asian Civilizations Workshop, 1998



Box 54 Folder 2-3 Asian Humanities and Civilizations, 50th Anniversary Celebration, 1999

Convocation, May 7th 1999



Box 53 Folder 8-9 Meetings & Correspondence, 2002-2012


Box 53 Folder 10 Publications, 2008


Box 53 Folder 11 Workshop Planning, 2000, 2006



Box 54 Folder 4 Faculty Information, 2000-2002



Box 53 Folder 12 2011


Box 53 Folder 13 Rachel Chung, 2011-2012

Columbia, UCAME, and the Global Core



Box 55 Folder 1 Keys to the Core Series, 2012


Box 55 Folder 2 Mission Statement & Letter to Shirane, 2011-2015


Box 55 Folder 3 2015


Box 55 Folder 4 Executive Committee, 2015



Box 54 Folder 5 Proposal for the Future of UCAME, 2017



Box 55 Folder 5 Correspondence: David Ma, undated



Box 54 Folder 6 Desk Copy Request/Book Order Forms, undated


Sub-Series II.6: Awards



Box 46 Folder 1 Van Doren Award, 1987-1988



Box 44 Folder 10 John Jay Award Dinner, 1989-1990



Box 46 Folder 2 Father Ford Association Award, 1990



Box 45 Folder 4 Order of the Rising Sun, 1993-1994


Box 45 Folder 5 Okada Award, 1994


Box 45 Folder 6 Frank Tannenbaum Award, 1995-1996


Box 45 Folder 7 The City College of the City University of New York, 1996

President's Medal


Box 45 Folder 8 Alexander Hamilton Awards, 1999


Box 45 Folder 9 Tang Prize Foundation, 2016



Box 46 Folder 3 Miscellaenous Awards and Cards, undated